Uncle Garabed's Notebook (May 1, 2010)

The Best of the Best
The fact that people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart’s concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.
… Johannes Brahms

French Saying
Polygamy ought to be obligatory on physicians. It would be only just to compel those who depopulate the world to repopulate it a little.

From the Word Lab
Amphigory: Writing that sounds good but lacks sense. Uncle Garabed’s contribution to the genre follows.

The Conquest of Discernibility
Out of the incongruous mass of depilatory events arise the ashes of astral delight; not making the more for human understanding but deciding the lengthy device of mourning for the abstruse beings inundated beyond recall. Of all the essential predicaments encountered by the force of evil, no more pretentious endowments can call forth the espoused spirit of sublimation. Whereas the captivity of long periods of responsible ascertainments can no longer claim to be presided over by irascible personages, the prolonged desire for reclamation asserts itself and in creating a pulsating stream of overt consequences, depicts a more hazardous line of activated principles. True, the more desirous we are of promulgating the ideas of terrestrial consequences the more avidly we protest the insignificance of emotional appeals, particularly where the assiduous explorer of moral values promotes the festering ideas of a latent procurer.
In another sphere of activity such immoral responses would evoke a hostile protuberance of ideas to protract the process of questionable delineaments and the deliverance of the more concerned requirements would inevitably suit the code of ethics to a more likely surrounding. Be it therefore understood that while the unknown components of an equation combining the moral values of an otherwise embodied phenomenal multitude of reproachable and erratic inhibitions irresistibly drawing on the otherwise immovable vacillations of a coordinated system could not by any stretch of scientific application be unequivocally absolute, yet there remains a positive declination of principle providing a ubiquitous solution to the unrelenting problems which manifests itself in a diabolical pursuit of the captivity of reason.

What’s in a Name?
Dimijian: Turkish in derivation, identified as an occupation, dimi is a kind of textile, and a dimiji is someone who makes or deals in such products.

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CK Garabed

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C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.